SSA Cindy Swales was watching the Goodyear Blimp slowly descend. She was ready. She had the arrest warrant, the suspect was approaching, and when she arrived at the field, twenty agents were dispatched and NCIS. The case was assigned to her that morning. She was handed the warrant, ordered to make the arrest and worry about the details later. The suspect had been FBI for ten years, a soldier on the mission that took down Bin Laden. She knew that meant he had special-ops training so the arrival of NCIS didn’t surprise her. A question gnawed at her “Why the hell are we taking down one of our own?”

(Updated as per suggestions by Doug McIlroy. Thank you Doug, it is better!)